The Chop Suey Club

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Summary: Weber's Book Disappoints.
Review: No one captures the male form better than Bruce Weber. Unfortunately, Bruce's pricy coffe table book has little more to offer than the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. The small size of the book along with its limited nude photos make it a tepid work of erotic photography at best. Out of an estimated 150 photos only about 6 show the subject nude. Sure the subject is hot and the photographs are beautiful, but you can find similar ones from Weber in periodicals.

Rating:
Summary: Weber's Book Disappoints.
Review: No one captures the male form better than Bruce Weber. Unfortunately, Bruce's pricy coffe table book has little more to offer than the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. The small size of the book along with its limited nude photos make it a tepid work of erotic photography at best. Out of an estimated 150 photos only about 6 show the subject nude. Sure the subject is hot and the photographs are beautiful, but you can find similar ones from Weber in periodicals.

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Summary: Bruce webers latest obsession
Review: This book presents Bruce Webers latest collection of photographs mostly of a young man he met while shooting at a wrestling camp. Taken over a series of years, the photographs evolve in scope and involvement as the subject ages and grows more comfortable with the camera. It is a fascinating study of not only a young man coming of age, but of a photographers relationship with one subject over a period of time. The books compact size is an interesting twist, in that often times books of this nature are quite large. The smaller size gives it a feel of a private journal rather than a glossy coffee table book. Excellent!

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Summary: Best Bruce Weber Book in Years
Review: This is an astonishingly beautiful collection of images by a very gifted photographer who presents his subject with great sensitivity and warmth, as well as with a fair amount of humor and love. The artist reveals more about himself than his subject, allowing the viewer to feel and to be touched by his intensely personal obsession with this beautiful young man. The only complaints I have about the book are, first, its relatively small size, which isn't a problem except when larger photographs are spread across two pages, which I feel compromises the impact of the image, and second, the pages are not numbered, making it difficult to connect a given photograph with its description. Otherwise, it is a beautifully-made book, with both black and white and color images rendered in magnificent quality.

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Summary: The Chop Suey Club
Review: This was the first Bruce Weber book i bought & i was very pleased. In The Chop Suey Club, Weber chronicles the growth of young wrestler Peter Johnson for 3+ years as a late teenager. Bruce has a great eye for spotting beautiful men and his 3 year photologue, The Chop Suey Club, demonstrates this well. Weber captures Peter's beauty in everything from a speedo to exotic dress clothes and various states of dress & undress in between. Weber uses a wide range of poses and ideas in these photos with his usual emphasis on the erotic. Several poems, still-life shots, & photos of nature are also included in The Chop Suey Club, but the emphasis is on young Peter Johnson. The book is in a smaller format than most Weber books, but it is thicker & has more photos than most of his other books. Weber also uses color photos much more so than in his other books. The Chop Suey Club is the kind of photography book you page through slowly when you first get it & you then later refer back to again and again. I like this Weber book the best & i recommend it to those who appreciate male beauty & fine photography, especially when viewed through Bruce Weber's lens.

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Summary: wow!
Review: This was the first Bruce Weber book i bought & i was very pleased. In The Chop Suey Club, Weber chronicles the growth of young wrestler Peter Johnson for 3+ years as a late teenager. Bruce has a great eye for spotting beautiful men and his 3 year photologue, The Chop Suey Club, demonstrates this well. Weber captures Peter's beauty in everything from a speedo to exotic dress clothes and various states of dress & undress in between. Weber uses a wide range of poses and ideas in these photos with his usual emphasis on the erotic. Several poems, still-life shots, & photos of nature are also included in The Chop Suey Club, but the emphasis is on young Peter Johnson. The book is in a smaller format than most Weber books, but it is thicker & has more photos than most of his other books. Weber also uses color photos much more so than in his other books. The Chop Suey Club is the kind of photography book you page through slowly when you first get it & you then later refer back to again and again. I like this Weber book the best & i recommend it to those who appreciate male beauty & fine photography, especially when viewed through Bruce Weber's lens.

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Summary: The Chop Suey Club
Review: This was the first Bruce Weber book i bought & i was very pleased. In The Chop Suey Club, Weber chronicles the growth of young wrestler Peter Johnson for 3+ years as a late teenager. Bruce has a great eye for spotting beautiful men and his 3 year photologue, The Chop Suey Club, demonstrates this well. Weber captures Peter's beauty in everything from a speedo to exotic dress clothes and various states of dress & undress in between. Weber uses a wide range of poses and ideas in these photos with his usual emphasis on the erotic. Several poems, still-life shots, & photos of nature are also included in The Chop Suey Club, but the emphasis is on young Peter Johnson. The book is in a smaller format than most Weber books, but it is thicker & has more photos than most of his other books. Weber also uses color photos much more so than in his other books. The Chop Suey Club is the kind of photography book you page through slowly when you first get it & you then later refer back to again and again. I like this Weber book the best & i recommend it to those who appreciate male beauty & fine photography, especially when viewed through Bruce Weber's lens.

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Summary: The point of view of the Chop Suey boy himself
Review: To whom this may concern,

Hello world, This book means much more to me than just a group of pictures and another of Bruce's collection of pictures. To me it represents a treasure given to me by an amazing and caring photographer. Bruce has captured an extrodinary moment in my life and together Bruce Weber & company and I are showing it to the world.

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Summary: hero
Review: Wow. For those who enjoy black and white photography at its best. This man knows how to get inside of his subjects and print their souls like no other.